Tenth Street has become a convenient and high trafficked route since opening last May, and Dell Rapids City Councilor Mark Crisp wants to make the road permanent.

“It’s probably the second most traveled street in the city, especially on Wednesdays – church night,” he said. “I’m getting a lot of questions on when the city is going to finish 10th Street. We knew that question would come.”

The City spent an estimated $12,000 making 10th Street a connecting road between the east and west sides of town by bypassing the former Odd Fellows Home property between Iowa and Rebekah avenues with the gravel road.
But Crisp doesn’t think the city should have to pay to upgrade it. Rather, the abutting property owners should cover the costs, he said.

“I do not feel at all that it is the taxpayers’ responsibility to put that street in when you have three developers that border that street,” Crisp said, referring to Avera Health, Sanford Health and Joan Rasmussen, owner of the Odd Fellows Home property. “I believe the developers know it’s their responsibility to put their street in. And two of them, as health care providers, I don’t think they would ever intend to hold up the city of Dell Rapids by not putting in their street.”